[ale] OT: Help with _funky_ characters in bash script

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Layton <jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.com> writes:


[...]

    Jeff> WORKSIZE=`ls -lsa ${WORKDIR}/${CASEPROJ}.urest | awk '{print
    Jeff> $1}' `

    Jeff> to a file (I hope these characters some through correctly :)
    Jeff> Does anybody have a way to echo all of this line, including
    Jeff> the _funky_ characters, to a file?

Aside from the obvious . . .

#!/usr/bin/perl
open( OUT, ">" . shift() ) or die "can't open output: $!\n";
print OUT <<'EOT';
WORKSIZE=`ls -lsa ${WORKDIR}/${CASEPROJ}.urest | awk '{print $1}'`
EOT
close( OUT );
exit 0;
__END__


You could just quote them . . .

echo 'WORKSIZE=`ls -lsa ${WORKDIR}/${CASEPROJ}.urest | awk '"'"{print \$1}"'"'`' > fooble


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